A Peek into Paddy's

We took a quick jaunt up the Paddy Peak area to check on conditions. There were no new avalanches, just the one older slab you can see in the photo. We dug a quick pit on a south facing slope at 1200 m and found a couple of crusts in the upper snowpack. When we get some more sun and warming this spring these crust layers may act as bed surfaces for slabs. We sledded up to the upper end of treeline around 1450 m and found the snowpack still overall pretty shallow and facetted - if you stepped off the sled trail you could find yourself waist deep in facets and standing on the ground. The sleds also trenched down to ground in a few untracked spots.